I became a Sword Emperor in the Martial Arts World

Chapter 200 Stepping Stone

"You dare!"

Cai Xiaodong thought that by bringing up the banner of Dongji Kingdom, he could intimidate the other party, but he never expected that the criminals in front of him would be so vicious.

"What wouldn't I dare to do?"

Ming Guangzhong laughed wildly. Although he had the blood of the people of Dongguo flowing in his veins, he had long since become a lackey of the Yuanxue Society. He no longer cared about his motherland and would not hesitate to kill his compatriots.

"What are you waiting for? Do it!"

The police battalion he commanded originally belonged to his grandfather, Ming Xuechang. When Ming Xuechang was still the county magistrate, these men were all policemen of Chenli Kingdom.

However, they did not uphold justice or maintain order; instead, they chose to be accomplices to evil, becoming henchmen of Ming Xuechang who wreaked havoc in the region. They had long committed countless evil deeds and killed people without blinking an eye.

Upon hearing Ming Guangzhong's order, they immediately swarmed forward, captured Cai Xiaodong, dragged him aside, and dug a deep pit.

Ming Guangzhong stepped forward, looked down at Cai Xiaodong who was bound hand and foot, and said with a sinister smile, "Kneel down and kowtow a few times, and I'll spare your life, how about it?"

"Pah! You're a thief, I'm a soldier. You think I'll kneel before you? Dream on!"

Now that things had come to this, Cai Xiaodong was prepared to die a martyr. When he received the mission, he knew that the trip would be extremely dangerous, and that he might even face certain death.

But in order to rescue his trapped compatriots, he still accepted the mission without hesitation.

As for making him bow down to criminals?

It's impossible!

"Haha, that's got guts."

Ming Guangzhong chuckled and gave Cai Xiaodong a thumbs-up, but then turned and coldly ordered his men, "Get it done quickly, bury him, we still have to continue our journey!"

After saying this, he glared menacingly at the other hostages and threatened in a stern voice, "Anyone who dares to cause trouble will suffer the same fate as him!"

Such a brutal act successfully intimidated the remaining hostages, who, under Cai Xiaodong's encouragement, had initially considered struggling.

Now that they saw Cai Xiaodong about to be buried alive, they all turned into quails, no longer daring to resist. They could only dejectedly accept their fate and be herded onto the truck like ducks.

In the deep pit, Cai Xiaodong stood ramrod straight, mud constantly falling from his body, but it could not conceal his pride and integrity.

"You demons and monsters, your evil deeds will surely lead to your downfall; you will be punished by heaven sooner or later!"

"Heh, divine retribution? Ridiculous. In this Mengding City, I am the god! After I sell you bunch of swine, I'll immigrate to the Western Regions, where I'll live in a villa, drive luxury cars, eat and drink well, and live to be a hundred. And you, you're about to die now."

Ming Guangzhong held up the gun in his hand, his expression unrestrained and arrogant.

"Yeah?"

A figure descended from the sky; it was Ye Qingzhou, who was passing by.

"The... Absolute Sword..."

Just moments ago, Ming Guangzhong was arrogant and haughty, but now his face was filled with horror, and his teeth were chattering: "Lord Jue... Lord Juejian, I've investigated. You are also wanted by the Eastern Extremity Kingdom, and now I am also wanted by the Eastern Extremity Kingdom. We're in cahoots, there's no need for us to kill each other. Oh... oh right... I can give you money, lots and lots of money!"

"Who do you think you are, to be wanted like me?"

Ye Qingzhou chuckled disdainfully and with a casual flick of his sword, severed Ming Guangzhong's legs at the knees.

He then turned and unleashed a sword strike, beheading several Ming family police officers wielding iron shovels. Next, he charged into the crowd, braving a hail of bullets, and began a killing spree.

Wherever the Black Shark Sword went, it stirred up a bloody storm, and the Ming family's private soldiers fell in droves like wheat in a field as the sword swept across the land.

A few minutes later, the police camp that Ming Xuechang had painstakingly built up over many years was completely slaughtered by Ye Qingzhou with a single sword.

The entire street was filled with decapitated corpses, and bright red blood flowed like a river, creating an extremely horrific scene. Even the hostages in the truck looked at Ye Qingzhou with fearful and uneasy eyes.

That was the most primal fear of humankind; in their eyes, Ye Qingzhou was like a bloodthirsty monster.

Ye Qingzhou looked into the truck and picked out a few of the strongest men: "You, you, and you, get out of the truck."

The three chosen men, seeing the Black Shark Sword still dripping blood in Ye Qingzhou's hand, dared not refuse. They immediately got out of the car obediently and followed Ye Qingzhou toward Ming Guangzhong.

At this moment, Ming Guangzhong was still clutching his severed leg, wailing and screaming, "My leg! My leg! Help me, please help me!"

Ye Qingzhou stepped forward expressionlessly, reached out and used his martial arts true energy to pull Cai Xiaodong out of the pit, then threw Ming Guangzhong down with a backhand, and ordered the three hostages behind him: "Bury him."

"what?"

The group trembled in fright.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"No! No problem!"

The three of them already harbored a deep-seated hatred for Ming Guangzhong, let alone the order personally given by Ye Qingzhou, the god of death.

They picked up shovels and started burying people, their movements incredibly swift and efficient. The more they played, the more excited they became, feeling nothing but pure joy.

As for questioning Ye Qingzhou's behavior?

If a normal person were to glance around, they probably wouldn't dare to even breathe.

It should be noted that Ming Xuechang's family only had three battalions of troops in total: a border defense battalion, a police battalion, and a militia battalion, and they controlled all three battalions.

The police battalion was said to have only two or three hundred men, but in reality, it had long since grown to over a thousand. Even the regular army of the Chenli Kingdom in Mengding was not as numerous as the Ming family's private army.

These thousand people are the main security force of Wohu Mountain Villa. After receiving military training from the Yuanxue Society, they were assigned to the telecom fraud park.

On the surface, they are a force maintaining local security, but in reality, they are protecting telecom fraud. All one thousand of them are armed soldiers, and they are paid three to five thousand yuan a month to carry out armed protection against fraud.

With an armed force of over a thousand people, although they didn't have much heavy firepower, they were still considered a heavily armed military organization by ordinary people.

But they couldn't even last five minutes against Ye Qingzhou before being wiped out.

The hostages witnessed the entire process from beginning to end, so they couldn't muster any resistance against a ruthless person like Ye Qingzhou.

Cai Xiaodong, however, looked at Ye Qingzhou with complicated emotions. He had just heard that the person who saved him was a wanted criminal from Dongji Kingdom.

For a moment, his feelings were somewhat complicated.

Finally, to ensure the safety of the hostages, Cai Xiaodong stepped forward and asked, "Could you please escort us to the embassy? I'm worried that the Bai family might come after us."

"No need."

Ye Qingzhou turned and left, and before his figure completely disappeared into the night sky, only his voice echoed in the evening breeze, lingering for a long time: "From today onwards, there is no more Bai family."

Boom~

Rumble~

In the city, gunfire and explosions rang out as Ye Qingzhou swept away the remaining forces of the four major families.

He went alone with his sword, leaving corpses everywhere he went.

First, the Ming family's two thousand main force members, along with other key family members, were all wiped out in less than seven minutes by the Black Shark Sword, completely slaughtered by Ye Qingzhou.

Next, it was the Liu and Bai families' turn. They wanted to withdraw from Mengding City, but with a large group of people traveling along the road and transporting a lot of supplies, how could they possibly escape Ye Qingzhou's pursuit?

"Run! That demon is coming again!"

huh~

Boom~

A sword aura struck, slicing the truck full of soldiers in two. Then, in the chaos, the soldiers accidentally discharged their guns, igniting the leaking gasoline and causing a violent secondary explosion.

Ye Qingzhou flew directly over the convoy and landed at the very front, blocking their escape route out of the city.

There was no dialogue, no attempt to persuade them to surrender; only the clanging of sword energy, crisscrossing and intersecting.

The merciless slaughter drove the desperate people before them into a state of complete madness.

"He can't escape, he's too fast!"

"They're not giving us a way out, damn it! We'll die facing the heavens, or live a long life! Let's just fight them to the death!"

Even if a group of several thousand people travels by car, they cannot possibly outrun a master-level expert who can fly at supersonic speeds.

Knowing that escape was hopeless, Liu Abao's two sons, Liu Jikai and Liu Jiguang, and Bai Suocheng's son, Bai Yingcang, put aside their past grievances and chose to join forces.

Although the two families have been fighting each other openly and covertly for years, a powerful enemy is right in front of them. This is a life-or-death battle, and only one side is destined to survive.

"Die, you son of a bitch!"

Liu Jikai picked up the rocket launcher, Liu Jiguang picked up the sniper rifle, and Bai Yingcang went even crazier. He pushed aside the soldiers in the back seat of the military jeep and started operating the M134 Gatling gun mounted on the vehicle himself.

He roared hysterically, pointing his gun at Ye Qingzhou: "You bastard, die!"

Da Da Da~

7.62mm bullets, continuously passing through the six barrels, converged into a golden torrent of metal at a rate of 6,000 rounds per second, slamming into Ye Qingzhou.

The power of a heavy machine gun is terrifying; it can penetrate any non-heavy armored object within 100 meters and turn a pickup truck into scrap metal in just two seconds.

In an instant, sniper rifles, rockets, Gatling guns—powerful firepower was unleashed on Ye Qingzhou as if it were free, but the combat puppet didn't even bother to dodge.

At most, this level of attack would only cause minor damage like a graze.

In just a few seconds, thousands of bullets were fired, and all six barrels of the M134 were smoking. Then, the figure of the combat puppet slowly emerged from the billowing smoke, bringing death and despair once again.

The indestructible iron on the combat puppet, under the infusion of martial arts true energy, seemed to be magnetically drawn, automatically flying from the ground towards Ye Qingzhou, merging into the armor, and restoring it to its original state.

"Thank you for recharging me. Now you can die in peace."

"No!"

The screams and wails were quickly drowned out by the buzzing and resonating sound of the swords, and the bodies of the Liu brothers and Bai Yingcang, among others, melted away like winter snow under the illumination of the sword light.

A dozen minutes later, burning vehicles and bodies cut in half were everywhere, and blood stained the road and soaked the soil of the nearby mountains and forests.

The fierce battle quickly attracted the attention of the Chenli Kingdom's garrison.

Ye Qingzhou, who was still busy chasing down the fleeing soldiers, finally stopped and looked south.

At the edge of the land, hundreds of tanks were seen heading straight for Mengding City along the highway.

At the same time, more than a dozen fighter jets roared through the night sky, their sonic booms deafening.

"The National Defense Forces are here!"

"We're saved!"

The surviving militia soldiers wept with joy.

Although, strictly speaking, they are also enemies of the Chenli Kingdom's national defense forces, since the Chenli Kingdom is now under military rule, the north-south contradictions are irreconcilable, and the two sides have been in a long-term military standoff.

In their desperation, they disregarded everything else and immediately appealed to the national defense forces of Chenli Kingdom for help.

Ye Qingzhou smiled coldly: "The Chenli Kingdom's army only has six hundred tanks in total, yet they sent a hundred to deal with me. It seems they want to collect the ten billion bounty."

Ye Qingzhou smiled coldly, and before his opponent could launch an attack, he took to the air and launched a surprise attack.

After betraying Peng Jiasheng, the four major families of Mengding City had long since pledged allegiance to the military government of Chenli Kingdom. Their black market businesses in Mengding City provided substantial profits to several generals of Chenli Kingdom every year in exchange for their protection.

Both sides were in cahoots, and in Ye Qingzhou's view, they both deserved to die.

"I am Bao Youxiang, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces of Chenli Kingdom. Your Excellency Juejian, please cease your hostile actions immediately!"

"Although our country, Chenli, is small, we will never tolerate others trampling on our dignity!"

Bao Youxiang's voice came from afar through the loudspeaker.

Ye Qingzhou's answer was just one word.

"die."

As Ye Qingzhou rapidly descended from a height where the tank's main gun could hardly aim, the Black Shark Sword in his hand emitted a buzzing sound. The vibrations propagated through the air, quickly causing the surrounding tanks to resonate.

Clang~

Just one sword strike!

A T72 main battle tank, over nine meters long, was sliced ​​open by Ye Qingzhou like a cake, and the three drivers inside were easily killed by the sword energy.

This monster, weighing over forty tons, can run at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour for more than four hundred kilometers across a muddy battlefield. Its 125mm smoothbore cannon can shatter a pickup truck with a single shot, making it an absolute tactical killing machine and a nightmare for most soldiers.

But in front of Ye Qingzhou, it turned into a pile of scrap metal in less than a second.

Then, this one-sided massacre began.

The tanks, completely outmatched in flexibility and mobility, were like lambs to the slaughter when facing Ye Qingzhou; they were wiped out in just over ten minutes.

Even the dozen or so MiG-29 fighter jets that wanted to launch missiles to strike Ye Qingzhou from a distance were dismantled into parts by Ye Qingzhou with lightning speed.

As for Bao Junfeng, the mastermind behind the telecom fraud operation in Mengdingcheng, he too eventually died by Ye Qingzhou's sword.

Ye Qingzhou forcibly wiped out nearly one-sixth of Quan Chenli's military strength.

The local armed forces around Mengding City, who had hoped to get a taste of the benefits, were completely dumbfounded, horrified and filled with fear.

A billion-dollar reward is certainly tempting, but you need to be alive to spend the money!

Soon, they scattered like birds and beasts, no longer daring to stroke Ye Qingzhou's tiger whiskers.

However, Ye Qingzhou knew the principle of eradicating evil completely. He had extracted an important piece of information from Ming Xuechang: there was another important "blood slave" transit station in Dagong City.

Every year, the Bloodline Society purchases a large amount of "goods" from the four major families, and with so many people to transport, a highly efficient transportation route is naturally needed.

The capital of Chenli Kingdom, Dagong, was the most important transit point on this route.

At the Allied Forces Headquarters, Bao Youxiang's face was ashen. His nephew, whom he regarded as his right-hand man, was dead!

His most loyal main force was also completely wiped out!

Within the military government, without the army under his command, he was nothing as a commander. However, he could not give up at this moment because he still had the Blood Source Society behind him.

With a determined effort, Bao Youxiang invited Du Zai, the top martial arts expert of the Ke tribe in Chenli Kingdom.

Soon, a dark-skinned, short man stepped into the headquarters.

"Master Duzai".

"Commander Bao, what important matter brings you here?"

snort!

That greedy old fox!

Bao Youxiang cursed inwardly, but since he needed someone's help, he could only suppress his anger and make a request: "I beg the Grand Preceptor to help me repel the invading enemy."

"Can."

A cunning and ruthless glint flashed in Du Zai's long, slanted eyes: "Fine, but from now on, we'll split the profits from the blood slave business 30/70."

"You want a 30% cut without doing anything?"

Bao Youxiang was clearly unhappy, after all, this business deal was not only profitable, but more importantly, it could bring him closer to the Source Blood Society. These days, not just anyone can be the Source Blood Society's dog.

Upon hearing this, Du Zai chuckled and said, "Commander Bao is joking. Seventy percent of it is mine."

"Don't go too far!"

"Too much?"

Du Zai, with an air of complete confidence in Bao Youxiang, was unyielding on this issue: "Without me, you would have lost your life. Giving you 30% is already a great favor."

At this moment, Bao Youxiang was grinding his teeth to powder.

Having lost his army, the top expert of the Ke tribe in front of him was now the only card he could play. With no other choice, he had to agree.

"Okay, I'll give you 70%!"

"Haha, Commander Bao is indeed straightforward."

Immediately, the commander left the headquarters and headed north, preparing to leave the city to fight the invading enemy.

He had recently entered the third level of the Ascension Realm, and his strength was already at the peak of the Grandmaster Realm. If he could befriend the Source Blood Society in his lifetime, he might have the opportunity to receive the blessing of the Holy Blood and advance further.

"Absolute Sword, you will become my stepping stone to the Grandmaster realm."

Du Zai was full of confidence and never thought he would lose. After all, the power Ye Qingzhou had shown was only at the first level of the Ascension Realm, except for his excellent defense.

Of course, if he had seen the sword strike Ye Qingzhou used to kill Allen, he probably wouldn't have thought that way.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs" in life.

Ye Qingzhou arrived in the air, heading south. Dagong was getting closer and closer to him, and the outline of the entire city, even its details, began to come into view.

Before he could even take a closer look, a powerful aura that seemed to pierce through heaven and earth blocked his way.

"Lord Juejian, the capital of my Chenli Kingdom is just ahead. Please stop here."

(End of this chapter)